On 7/12/2012 11:34 AM, Hawke wrote:
On 7/11/2012 11:04 PM, George Plimpton wrote:
On 7/11/2012 8:32 PM, Hawke wrote:
On 7/11/2012 4:36 PM, George Plimpton wrote:
On 7/11/2012 11:04 AM, Hawke wrote:
On 7/10/2012 8:39 PM, RogerN wrote:
"Ignoramus3314" wrote in message
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ROTFLMAO

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/texas-gop-rejects-critical-thinking-skills-really/2012/07/08/gJQAHNpFXW_blog.html?tid=pm_local_pop






Or: http://goo.gl/PFCg6

``We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)
(values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar
programs
that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE)
(mastery
learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the
purpose of
challenging the students fixed beliefs and undermining parental
authority.''

Then, they say

`We believe that because the Permanent School Fund is not paid by
taxpayers that the principle balance should be safeguarded''

I think that they meant "principal balance".

I'm not sure what they were teaching about (HOTS) but some of the
teachings,
in a nutshell, are "don't believe what your parents taught you,
believe us
instead", then they get students to stop believing established facts
and
push revisionist history and other lies. They simply brainwash the
sense
out of students and fill (indoctrinate, not educate) them with
nonsense.

RogerN


They do brainwash students.

Which is why the public schools should be dismantled.

They should have dismantled them

They never should have been put in place.


Ask around and see how many people agree with that.

As usual, you mistake majority sentiment with sound thinking, when in
fact they usually mean exactly the opposite. A majority of tens of
millions think McDonald's is good food, but it isn't.

There is no valid reason at all for government to be in the business of
operating schools. You idiot leftards don't even advocate that
government directly supply medical care, i.e., that government ought to
own and operate the hospitals and clinics and directly employ the
medical staff. Instead, leftards say that those things ought to be
privately provided, but paid for by government. So, why not the
schools? Why can't you ****ing morons ever be consistent? Get the
government *OUT* of the business of owning and operating schools and
employing the incompetent teachers, and instead let them give vouchers
to people to send their children to the private school of their choice.